Gianni Jetzer, director of the Swiss Institute in New York, will return in June to curate Art Basel’s Unlimited Sector for the second time. But this year, the section of the famous Swiss art fair dedicated to supersized art will be bigger than ever — in fact, the largest in its history.

The Unlimited Sector, which is devoted to large-scale artworks and projects, promises 79 works by such luminaries as Theaster Gates, Ai Weiwei, Antony Gormley, Walid Raad, and Adriana Varejao. The show has grown by more than a dozen projects; last year, it had only 62.

Thanks to an extension to the fair's space created by Herzog & De Meuron, Unlimited is also physically expanding. This year, Hall 1 has gotten an additional 2,500 square meters to work with. The auditorium for Art Basel Conversations will be moved from the original Hall 1 to the new extension, leaving Jetzer the chance to work with the entirety of the original 17,000-square-meter exhibition space of Hall 1.

Consequently, Jetzer is thinking even bigger than usual. Among other things, this year, Unlimited will show Matt Mullican's “Two into One becomes Three” (2011), a 72-by-23-foot work comprised of 70 panels of oil stick and acrylic on canvas. Presented by Klosterfelde (Berlin), it is the largest painting that has ever been exhibited within the Sector. Huan Yon Ping, a Chinese-born artist living in France, will show his controversial installation “Abbottabad” (2012), a ceramic replica of the compound where Osama Bin Laden was assassinated in May 2011 transformed into a seedbed, presented by Gladstone Gallery. Indian-born artist L.N. Tallur brings his installation “Vendi, Vidi, Vici” (2013), an inverted roof structure created from tiles manufactured in South India by missionaries from Basel, Switzerland itself. His work, presented by Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, will be his first showing outside the Asian continent. At least one artist, Lygia Clark, won’t be there to see her work. The Brazilian artist known for her Bichos, or interactive foldable aluminum sculptures, had documented her wish to create a giant-sized Bicho called “Fantastic Architecture.” In collaboration with Clark’s estate, Alison Jacques, London will realize the installation as closely as possible to Clark's vision.

Jetzer has also attempted to keep it varied with a healthy dose of performance. Amalia Pica's “Strangers,” presented by Herald St., London, will have two strangers hold a string of colorful bunting for hours, while Martin Creed's “Work No. 850,” presented by Gavin Browna and Hauser & Wirth, will feature runners sprinting through the exhibition space every 30 seconds.

Since its inception in 2000, the Unlimited sector has shaken things up, allowing well-known artists the opportunity to think beyond the dimensions of the standard gallery booth. At last year’s fair, Rudolph Stingel’s 11-by-15-foot portrait of legendary dealer Paula Cooper was the subject of much buzz. That work, which was created for the exhibition, sold to super-collector Francois Pinault.

As for which work will draw the most attention this year, we’ll have to wait and see.